Tec(h)tonic

Insights into building a solid I.T. foundation in the mid-size business world.

Category: How To

  • MS Outlook doesn’t feel like printing

    I just ran into this issue w/ one of my users and, though the fix is an easy one, it took me forever to figure it out so I figured I’d better write it down… I spent some time on our Exchange Server a week or so ago to apply an assortment of updates and, in the…

  • Speeding up Mac OS X 10.x

    The older I get, the more OS-agnostic I get – as my good friend Jorge Abellas-Martin is fond of saying: “Dogs with different fleas.” Having said that, the design snob in me has always preferred Macs (it probably doesn’t help that I was indoctrinated with the Apple ][ Plus as a wee lad). At this…

  • Single line command to copy file from one file server to another

    Here’s a simple command to copy a specified file from one file server to another – I use this to send our office contact list (stored on our local Samba file server) to our branch office’s file server whenever I update it so that both offices always have access to the current copy. Note that…